Mitt Romney's top adviser Eric Fehrnstrom had just one question to ask of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid following the latter's charge that the presumptive Republican nominee didn't pay taxes for 10 years: "Have you no decency, sir?"

"I don't think there is anything behind it. He hasn't produced any evidence," Fehrnstrom said Thursday in an interview with Fox News. "I'm telling you speaking on behalf of the governor that those charges are untrue, they are baseless and there is nothing to back them up."

"This reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s," he added.

Fehrnstrom's line, "Have you no decency, sir?" is a paraphrase of what Army lawyer Joseph N. Welch asked Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in 1954, when he famously stood up to the powerful, witch-hunting senator who was falsely accusing people of being Communists.

Really? Comparing Romney's unwillingness to show his taxes to the Communist witch hunts of the 1950? What next, will Romney compare himself to Rosa Park and claim that the weatlhy are tired of sitting on the back of the bus.

Geez, even his father, when running for President, opened up ALL of his Tax Returns.

3. "...there is nothing to back them up."

4. McCarthy's victims could not offer affirmative proof in their defense

You don't get a card saying you're *not* a communist.

And it was none of anybody's business.

Mitt is running for President. The charge is specific. He is named. He has affirmative proof of the falsity of the charge, which he prefers to keep to himself.

Mitt have every right to "take the Fifth," which is essentially what he is doing.

He doesn't have to release anything. He will not be held in contempt of Congress for not releasing his returns. Congress is not pressuring anyone to not hire him. His public comments about his taxes will not result in federal perjury charges.